Back to the Stone Age in Jeans
Children & Young Adult, Young Adult, YA Age 14+, YA Adventure / Crime, YA History
13-year-old Isabelle spends four weeks in south France with relatives. Together with her cousins Suzanne, Regis and Philippe she makes a great discovery: a cave from the Stone Age. With passionate enjoyment and Regis' knowledgeable guidance, they find 20,000 year-old evidence of the Cromagnon man: animal skeletons, tools, weapons and beautiful cave paintings of buffalo, mammoths, mountain goats and hunting scenes. Then something awful happens. Because of a landslide, Isabelle is cut off from the others, and wanders around with her dog Jaquin until she is completely exhausted. Suddenly she hears human voices and is confronted by cave dwellers ...
Of course this turns out to be a dream, and Isabelle is rescued in dramatic fashion. And the children become famous because of their sensational discovery. The story is an exciting reading adventure, carefully mixed with well-founded information.
Wolfgang Kuhn was born in 1928, studied botany, zoology, geography, chemistry and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. After many years of teaching at the universities of Trier, Koblenz and Saarbrücken, he received a professorship of the University of Saarbrücken in 1978. He died in January 2001. Wolfgang Kuhn was the editor of a number of scientific publications and also author and moderator of school broadcasting programmes. The excavations and tombs in Mexico that form the subject of this book were all visited by him.
13-year-old Isabelle spends four weeks in south France with relatives. Together with her cousins Suzanne, Regis and Philippe she makes a great discovery: a cave from the Stone Age. With passionate enjoyment and Regis' knowledgeable guidance, they find 20,000 year-old evidence of the Cromagnon man: animal skeletons, tools, weapons and beautiful cave paintings of buffalo, mammoths, mountain goats and hunting scenes. Then something awful happens. Because of a landslide, Isabelle is cut off from the others, and wanders around with her dog Jaquin until she is completely exhausted. Suddenly she hears human voices and is confronted by cave dwellers ...
Of course this turns out to be a dream, and Isabelle is rescued in dramatic fashion. And the children become famous because of their sensational discovery. The story is an exciting reading adventure, carefully mixed with well-founded information.